This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book

By Badari Pulavarti

Introduction

Now that you’ve made important decisions about how to install Linux on
your system, you need to learn more about the Linux kernel to make important
tuning decisions. We’ll discuss how Linux evolved and then delve into its
architecture. We’ll include information on how the kernel is organized,
what its responsibilities are, and how memory management is handled. We’ll
discuss process management and interprocess communication, followed by an
overview of the Linux Symmetrical Multiprocessing Model. Finally, we’ll
examine the Linux file systems.